Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pamphlet was made out last year, and great care will be necessary in the future to guard against obscurity of wording in this important book. Many men this year took courses which they found too hard, or too easy, or directly the opposite of what they were led to expect. These dissatisfied men, together with the lazy, form the one objectionable side to the system as it now stands...
...said that, if the number of names secured is sufficient, the tickets for the round trip may be had for four dollars, while even now, with only forty names signed, the tickets are placed at the surprisingly low figure of five dollars. It is certain that, if we expect the nine to win the first game with Yale, the support of the college must be shown in a more substantial way than by merely clustering about the bulletin boards and waiting for the telegraphic returns of the game. We must show something like the spirit of the Princeton...
HARVARD, 3; BROWN, 1.Our first championship game with Brown has resulted in a victory for Harvard, although the game was much closer than the exhibition game had led us to expect. With the exception of a few inexcusable muffs our nine played a good game; the work of both batteries was exceptionally good...
...abilities of the team. The men showed that, as a whole, they could do good work with the bat while facing a strong pitcher. The fielding was steady, notably in centre field, and the work of the battery was well up to the standard we have been taught to expect. With the nine in its present condition, there ought to be but little doubt of the issue of the game against Brown this afternoon. At any rate, we feel justified in the belief that the ruinous slip made by the nine in its game at Providence last year...
...repetition of the fiasco of last year, when the signals were misunderstood, and three of the crews started off in succession before the word was given. Printed directions for starting, which are given below, have been distributed among the crews, so that each oarsman will know what signals to expect before the crews get into line...